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- 15 Jun 2021
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Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
society, but that alterations to the regulation and taxation of ESOPs had made them less beneficial. When he became head of industrials for the global investment firm KKR in 2010, Stavros began experimenting with new approaches to...
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1929: The Great Crash - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
the 1920s Research Links Site Credits 1929: The Great Crash Unique historical materials in Harvard University collections throw light on the role of the regional exchanges in the stock market crash of 1929, and the regulation of the...
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- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
personal lives, but they often need the help of well-managed social institutions to succeed. Leaders have several structural devices they can use to promote this balance. For example, they can balance financial and symbolic rewards for...
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by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
very little about how to prevent a bubble from becoming a problem in the first place. Q: In your own field of research, what are you working on these days? A: Well, I'm working on a number of things. I've spent a great deal of time over the past year thinking about...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines the impact of leveraged buyout firms' bank relationships on the terms of their syndicated loans. Using a sample of 1,590 loans financing private equity sponsored leveraged...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2019
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Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
Book of the Year and connected finance with the humanities. The book sets out to demystify finance and instill both curiosity and confidence, helping readers answer fundamental questions like: What do financial ratios reveal about a...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Common Strategy Mistakes
profit. I believe that many companies undermine their own strategies. Nobody does it to them. They do it themselves. Their strategies fail from within. Then there is the host of strategy killers in the external environment. These range from so-called industry experts...
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by Joan Magretta
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
intervention. Hence, an understanding of residual market imperfections—those imperfections that persist after market competition and regulation are accounted for—must inform any assessment of the long-term attractiveness of firm...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t CrooksWhy Good Audits Go Bad
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, signed into law last July, is the government's response to a series of financial reporting scandals that rocked investors. Among other measures the law offers up stiff criminal penalties for accounting...
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Insurance: Regulation and Cross-Subsidies" with Sangmin Oh and Ana-Maria Tenekedijieva. Boris Vallee : Recipient of the Distinguished Referee Award from the Review of Financial Studies in 2022. 2021 Malcolm...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.
New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states...
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- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
negotiation of safe paths through the complexities of official regulations and government. The easiest way to understand the Unilever organization, observed an article in the U.S. business magazine Fortune in 1947, was "to think of...
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- 13 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?
Corporate scandals often follow a pattern: Whether it’s Theranos and its fraudulent blood testing technology, Wells Fargo and its fake financial accounts, or Volkswagen and its bogus emissions data, a whistleblower eventually comes...
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Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni
“negative externalities”—things like traffic congestion or pollution that are unavoidable by-products of their business practice. Typically, governments have dealt with these externalities through either regulation or taxation. But today,...
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- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
January 2015 Journal of Financial Stability The Capital Purchase Program and Subsequent Bank SEOs By: Khan, Mozaffar N., and Dushyantkumar Vyas Abstract—We find that in the aftermath of the recent financial...
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Sean Silverthorne
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2.3 Community Standards of Conduct - MBA
Disciplinary Outcomes & Sanctions 2.6 Sample Disciplinary Violations 2.7 Admissions Materials 2.8 MBA Community Values Annual Report (2023) 3. Financial Obligations 4. General Policies 5. Technology, Copyright, & Publishing Policies 6....
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- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
not going to be incredibly successful. But, if they are, then that’s a conversation that the regulators need to be aware of. In the short run, my great worry is patient privacy. They’re going to get something like 10 or 15 years of...
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- 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30
inflation-indexed bond markets in the U.S. and the U.K. It documents a massive decline in long-term real interest rates from the 1990s until 2008, followed by a sudden spike in these rates during the financial crisis of 2008. Breakeven...
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Martha Lagace
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Climate Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
As business strives to reduce carbon emissions and transition to clean energy, Gasparini plans to study the financial economics of climate change, focusing on the role of financial View Details
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
Regulators often punish companies for bad behavior—for instance, by fining them if they pollute the environment. But instead of focusing on what business leaders are doing wrong and constantly slapping their hands, government officials...
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by Lane Lambert